The Slavic Literature Pod
Your shelf-help guide to the Slavic canon
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I Live I See by Vsevolod Nekrasov (w/ trans. Bela Shayevich and Dr. Ainsley Morse)
Cameron dives into the poetry of Vsevolod Nekrasov, joined by Bela Shayevich and Ainsley Morse who collected and translated works spanning much of his life in I Live I See: Selected Poems.
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Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov (w/ the author himself)
This week, Cameron ascends into the towering heights of imperial politics in Yaroslav Barsukov’s Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory, joined by the author himself.
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Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy (w/ Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich)
This week, Cameron dives back into the work of Leo Tolstoy to talk about one of his later works, Hadji Murat, joined by podcast returnee Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich.
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To Hell with Poets by Baqytgul Sarmekova (w/ translator Mirgul Kali)
Cameron revists Baqytgul Sarmekova’s To Hell With Poets with the help of the collection’s translator, Mirgul Kali.
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I Burned at the Feast by Arseny Tarkovsky (w/ translators Philip J. Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev)
Buy a copy of I Burned at the Feast here. Show Notes: This week, Cameron dives into the collection I
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Cecil the Lion Had to Die by Olena Stiazhkina (w/ translator Dominique Hoffman)
Cameron is joined by Dominique Hoffman to discuss Olena Stiazhkina's Cecil the Lion Had to Die. They'll get into her work translating the novel, the material culture of the post-Soviet world, and Ukrainian identify formation.
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The Talnikov Family by Avdotya Panaeva (w/ translator Fiona Bell)
Cameron sits down with Fiona Bell to talk about her translation of Avdotya Panaeva's The Talnikov Family, covering its deployment of defamiliarization, the Russian racial imaginary, and purported universality.
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Office Hours - Is Tolstoy still relevant?
Major themes: Raskolnikov the rap god, The future of art, Tricking PBS
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The UnSimple by Taras Prokhasko
Major themes: We can never escape Benedict Anderson, Bai-narrative, Quasi-history
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To Hell with Poets by Baqytgul Sarmekova
Major themes: Aul literature, Looking for satisfaction, Having two faces
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Office Hours - Why don't straight men read novels?
Major themes: A.I. bait, straight men and novels, TikTok killed the author-star
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